What are some difficulties with an arranged marriage?

Answer 1

Plenty. One is attempting to use forcible arbitration, an element of compulsion to love, as though this was something akin to Parking laws, I know it is a horrible analogy. You, Mr. nothing, are legally bound to LOVE ( not merely co-exist) with Miss Dingo Dog ( I am not making fun of Australians, but you get the drift. Imagine a Taft-type Judge standing behind a podium and sentencing couples to live together as a court mandate- I am not talking about judicial marriages but this sort of punitive, urgent stuff. It poses about the same problems of compulsion versus free association as the idea of say, a civilian Labor Draft ( which was practiced in some European countries right after World War II when much reconstruction and damage control was urgently needed) in a Free country. The so-called Shotgun wedding ( brought on by the pregnancy of the female partner) might be considered a borderline case. the subject of forced marriages is so repellant It is rarely used by script writers.